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Global News
3 days ago
- Global News
Police find ‘inconsistencies' in alleged kidnapping of baby boy in California
Officials have not ruled out foul play in the disappearance of a seven-month-old California boy, saying the mother of the child has stopped speaking with police and has 'inconsistencies' in her story. Emmanuel Haro went missing last Thursday. His mother, Rebecca Haro, claimed she was attacked and knocked unconscious and that when she woke up, someone had kidnapped her infant. Speaking to ABC Eyewitness News last week, she said she had been changing her son's diaper in a store parking lot in Yucaipa, Calif., near San Bernardino, when she was assaulted from behind. View image in full screen Seven-month-old Emmanuel Haro went missing Aug. 14, 2025. Handout / San Bernardino Sheriff's Department 'I got him out of the car seat, and I laid him down so I could get his diapers ready, and somebody said, 'Hola,' and that's all I remember. I saw white, and I fell on the floor, and as soon as I got up, I couldn't find my son. I checked all around my truck,' Haro, who had a black eye, told the outlet. Story continues below advertisement Haro said she never saw her alleged attacker. She said she was in the area for a football practice for one of her other children. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen. Sign up for breaking National newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy No security footage was found in the area where Emmanuel, the youngest of Rebecca's six children, disappeared. An Amber Alert wasn't issued in this case, as no descriptions of the suspect or vehicle were provided, according to news outlet KTLA. 'Investigators from our Specialized Investigations Division are continuing to investigate the reported kidnapping of a seven-month-old, after the child's mother reported being attacked outside a retail store on Yucaipa Boulevard last night,' police wrote on X Friday afternoon. 'K9 scent-tracking dogs were deployed but the child was not located. No suspect information is available at this time.' August 15, 2025 Investigators from our Specialized Investigations Division are continuing to investigate the reported kidnapping of a seven-month-old, after the child's mother reported being attacked outside a retail store on Yucaipa Boulevard last night. K9 scent-tracking dogs… — San Bernardino County Sheriff (@sbcountysheriff) August 15, 2025 Story continues below advertisement In an update over the weekend, the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department said the mother's initial statement had inconsistencies and that she ended the interview with investigators when confronted about them. 'Investigators interviewed multiple individuals, including Emmanuel's parents Jake and Rebecca Haro. During those interviews, Rebecca was confronted with inconsistencies in her initial statement and declined to continue with the interview,' the department said in a statement Saturday morning, but did not elaborate on the inconsistencies they found. The department hasn't named either parent as suspects in the case. No description of a potential suspect has been released. On August 14, 2025, at about 7:47 p.m., deputies from the Yucaipa Station responded to the 34000 block of Yucaipa Boulevard regarding a reported missing seven-month-old boy. This is an active investigation, and we are seeking the public's help in locating the child. He was last… — San Bernardino County Sheriff (@sbcountysheriff) August 15, 2025 According to the Orange County Register, officials with the Uvalde Foundation for Kids, who were offering a US$5,000 reward for information leading to Emmanuel's recovery, called off their independent search less than a day after announcing the effort. Story continues below advertisement 'We cannot in good conscience, utilize our team and resources when so much is missing in this case. Of particular concern to us lies within the inconsistencies in the details and the sudden decision by the mother to end communication with law enforcement and our team … Something is not right in this whole picture,' the foundation's founder, Daniel Chapin, told the outlet. Authorities describe Emmanuel as 21 pounds and approximately 24 inches tall with brown hair and brown crossed eyes. He was last seen wearing a black Nike onesie.
Daily Mirror
14-05-2025
- Daily Mirror
Six children 'rescued from house of horrors after severe and prolonged torture'
Kenneth Key, 60, his wife Tina, also 60, and their daughter Katlynn, 23, were arrested following an investigation into the alleged "severe and prolonged" torture of several children A married couple and their daughter have been arrested on suspicion of torturing six children and subjecting them to "severe and prolonged abuse". Suspects Kenneth Key, 60, Tina Key, also 60, and Katlynn Key, 23, were arrested during an investigation into allegations of abuse and torture. Police said Kenneth and Tina are married and that Katlynn is their daughter. Officers with the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department launched an investigation on February 13 following a tip that was called in to their child abuse hotline. The children were found on Monday in their home in Victorville, California. The six alleged victims were kids who were aged between five and 16. Police said they suspected the children had been subjected to torture. No other details about the alleged crimes and the children's relationship to the three suspects were made public. "During the investigation, Kenneth Key, Tina Key, and Katlynn Key were identified as the suspects," the SBSD said in its news release. "At the conclusion of the investigation, all three suspects were arrested and booked at the Central Detention Center in violation of PC206 - Torture, in lieu of $1,000,000 bail (£749,276)." The Mirror has contacted the SBSD for comment. According to the Kann California Law Group, child abuse laws in the Golden State prohibits "wilfully inflicting cruel or inhuman punishment or any traumatic injury on a child". People can be charged with child abuse in California as both a misdemeanour or felony. A person convicted of child abuse in the felony form can face upward of six years in a state prison and/or a fine of up to $6,000 (£4,494). Anyone convicted of the misdemeanour faces a full year in a county jail and/or a fine of up to $6,000 (£4,494). The California-based Eisner Gorin legal group said child neglect offences in the state are classified as a parent who "wilfully and without lawful excuse" fails to provide a child with necessities. These include clothing, food, medicine and shelter. The Child Welfare League of America, said California had 382,145 total referrals for child abuse and neglect in 2002. Of those 40,083 were first-time victims. The overwhelming type of recorded maltreatment was neglect at 80.3 per cent, 6.2 per cent was stated to be physical abuse, another 6.2 per cent was registered as sexual abuse and 7.1 per cent was said to be psychological maltreatment.
Yahoo
20-03-2025
- Yahoo
Was his sister's death really suicide? A sibling confronts his own limited understanding
How well do any of us know our adult siblings? In 'A Better Ending,' James Whitfield Thomson looks back on the events of summer 1974, when his younger sister Eileen died at the age of 27 from a gunshot wound to the chest. His sister's death was quickly ruled a suicide, although it bore all the hallmarks of murder, and Thomson's initial reaction to the circumstances surrounding her death reveals much about the separate realities in which men and women continue to live. According to official police reports, Eileen died by suicide in the middle of an argument with her husband Vic, then a cop in San Bernardino. The San Bernardino Sheriff's Department investigated her death, and almost immediately determined it as a self-inflicted gunshot, despite the presence of Vic in the house when she died. Eileen was the youngest of three and only daughter in the family. Thomson describes a Pittsburgh childhood where money was tight and their father's alcoholism was a destabilizing force. The two younger siblings, only a couple of years apart, were both very close and prone to fighting and hitting each other. One of the undercurrents in Thomson's writing is the admission of the casual violence that surrounded them, and the sense that the family was not particularly adept at discussing feelings. At times, Thomson's accounts of events — such as his role in the hazing of one of his high school football teammates — is narrated at such a distance that it reads as if he wasn't a participant. That distance recurs often when he becomes a character in the story — almost as if he feels duty-bound to report his actions, but is unwilling to offer insight about himself. After Eileen's death, his grief-stricken parents asked him to speak to Vic in order to try and find out anything that might suggest that Vic had killed his wife. In their conversation, Vic reveals to Thomson that Eileen had demanded a trial separation, but after a couple of months they had reconciled and everything had been fabulous. But Vic had accused Eileen of cheating on him during their separation after sitting in his car outside her house all night, rough-handling Eileen even as she had denied having sexual relations with the man. Vic tells her brother that Eileen had accused him of spying on her. (Which he was.) Read more: Griffin Dunne's sister's murder provides the pulse of his family memoir On the day of her death, soon after the pair had reconciled and started seeing a marriage therapist, Eileen had confessed that the one-night stand she had disclosed in their counseling session had in fact been a full-blown multi-date affair with a co-worker. She wanted to get everything out in the open so that the pair could move forward. The two of them argued violently. When Vic left the room to make a phone call, Eileen shot herself, supposedly out of shame for her infidelity. And here is where gendered perceptions come into play. Shocked to find out that his sister had broken her marriage vows, Thomson shifts his loyalty to Vic. He asks Vic if he had hit her when he first became aware of the cheating. It's not an irrelevant question since Thomson had hit his wife when he discovered she was having an affair. He writes, 'How could I condemn Vic? A month before, I had slapped Connie and condoned it in my own mind as an acceptable action for a man whose wife had cheated on him. The feeling I had at this moment was one of empathy with Vic, so much so that I assumed, as he did, that Eileen was lying when she said that nothing had happened between her and the salesman.' Eileen died in 1974, when domestic violence was still regarded as a private matter between husband and wife and rarely criminally prosecuted. Perhaps still wounded by his own experiences with his wife, Thomson, author of the novel "Lies You Wanted to Hear," sees Vic as the injured party. Vic claimed that he left Eileen in their bedroom because she was 'hysterical' and he wanted to call Eileen's mother to see if she could help calm Eileen down. That's when Vic heard the shot. These details set off alarm bells in my head. Eileen's motivation for shooting herself felt like a flimsy excuse made up on the spot by a murderous husband. According to recent government statistics, the number of women murdered by an intimate partner was five times higher than for men; according to research by Everytown, 76% of women killed by firearms were murdered by their partners in 2021. While Thomson's obliviousness to the phenomenon in 1974 might be a product of attitudes and awareness of the issue that time, he still seems unaware how prevalent domestic violence is when he starts investigating Eileen's death in 2001. He hires a male private investigator to track down more details, but it's not until a female investigator joins them that she immediately spots a pattern of domestic abuse that should have been an immediate red flag. What follows is Thomson's account of his obsessive search for answers about what really happened to Eileen on that afternoon. It's never clear what fuels his quest nearly 30 years after she died: At first, he says it's because he wants to write a novel about his sister's case; later, when others ask him, 'Why now?' his response is 'happenstance.' As if it had accidentally occurred to him. Read more: The secrets, lies and many half siblings of an L.A. writer's not-so-'Normal Family' True crime stories often turn on the pursuit of a more accurate account of what actually transpired than authorities first agreed upon. Traditional ideas about narrative — that a story has a beginning, middle and end — fuels the expectation that by uncovering the sequence of events and the motivations of those involved, that we will arrive at a place called 'truth,' and that in knowing the truth, justice will prevail. What then, does a writer — a grieving brother — do with a case that begins in ambiguous circumstances? If it turns out that Eileen did aim a gun at her own heart, will having the suicide confirmed be a form of justice? And if Thomson's investigation reveals that her husband killed her in 1974, what then would justice look like decades later? Thomson is aware of the quandary. 'We want a verdict in cases like this, truth sealed with an imprimatur of a court of law,' he writes as he discusses the true crime cases that are a staple of TV programs such as "Dateline," observing that producers of such shows "know their audience. Viewers don't want ambiguity: they want stories about cases that have been solved and reaffirm their belief that there is order in the universe, that justice will win out. This is what I wanted for Eileen — and for me — order, justice, redemption, resolution. Certainty.' Thomson is seeking his own redemption. When Eileen died, he had accepted the idea that her suicide had been a natural consequence for breaking her marriage vows. His understanding of her was based on a one-dimensional view of what a moral woman was. But marriage is much more complex, and he knew almost nothing about Eileen's life in California. He admits that he casually accepted Vic's story because of his own 'hubris and eagerness to get on with my life.' His views of Eileen as an adult woman needed to change if he was to find any peace with Eileen's death. At best, what he gets is an uneasy peace. Even in 2001, Thomson operated in a world in which he was oblivious to the ways that gender ideologies and power imbalances affect men and women in different ways. His assumptions about Eileen were based on views he'd had of her as a kid. What he comes to understand is that his little sister had been 2,000 miles away from the support of family, living with a husband with a bad temper, a gun and a badge. In her last moments, she was alone and frightened with that angry man, and about to have her life cut short by expectations about how a 'good' wife should behave. Berry is a writer and critic living in Oregon. Get the latest book news, events and more in your inbox every Saturday. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
Los Angeles Times
20-03-2025
- Los Angeles Times
Was his sister's death really suicide? A sibling confronts his own limited understanding
How well do any of us know our adult siblings? In 'A Better Ending,' James Whitfield Thomson looks back on the events of summer 1974, when his younger sister Eileen died at the age of 27 from a gunshot wound to the chest. His sister's death was quickly ruled a suicide, although it bore all the hallmarks of murder, and Thomson's initial reaction to the circumstances surrounding her death reveals much about the separate realities in which men and women continue to live. According to official police reports, Eileen died by suicide in the middle of an argument with her husband Vic, then a cop in San Bernardino. The San Bernardino Sheriff's Department investigated her death, and almost immediately determined it as a self-inflicted gunshot, despite the presence of Vic in the house when she died. Eileen was the youngest of three and only daughter in the family. Thomson describes a Pittsburgh childhood where money was tight and their father's alcoholism was a destabilizing force. The two younger siblings, only a couple of years apart, were both very close and prone to fighting and hitting each other. One of the undercurrents in Thomson's writing is the admission of the casual violence that surrounded them, and the sense that the family was not particularly adept at discussing feelings. At times, Thomson's accounts of events — such as his role in the hazing of one of his high school football teammates — is narrated at such a distance that it reads as if he wasn't a participant. That distance recurs often when he becomes a character in the story — almost as if he feels duty-bound to report his actions, but is unwilling to offer insight about himself. After Eileen's death, his grief-stricken parents asked him to speak to Vic in order to try and find out anything that might suggest that Vic had killed his wife. In their conversation, Vic reveals to Thomson that Eileen had demanded a trial separation, but after a couple of months they had reconciled and everything had been fabulous. But Vic had accused Eileen of cheating on him during their separation after sitting in his car outside her house all night, rough-handling Eileen even as she had denied having sexual relations with the man. Vic tells her brother that Eileen had accused him of spying on her. (Which he was.) On the day of her death, soon after the pair had reconciled and started seeing a marriage therapist, Eileen had confessed that the one-night stand she had disclosed in their counseling session had in fact been a full-blown multi-date affair with a co-worker. She wanted to get everything out in the open so that the pair could move forward. The two of them argued violently. When Vic left the room to make a phone call, Eileen shot herself, supposedly out of shame for her infidelity. And here is where gendered perceptions come into play. Shocked to find out that his sister had broken her marriage vows, Thomson shifts his loyalty to Vic. He asks Vic if he had hit her when he first became aware of the cheating. It's not an irrelevant question since Thomson had hit his wife when he discovered she was having an affair. He writes, 'How could I condemn Vic? A month before, I had slapped Connie and condoned it in my own mind as an acceptable action for a man whose wife had cheated on him. The feeling I had at this moment was one of empathy with Vic, so much so that I assumed, as he did, that Eileen was lying when she said that nothing had happened between her and the salesman.' Eileen died in 1974, when domestic violence was still regarded as a private matter between husband and wife and rarely criminally prosecuted. Perhaps still wounded by his own experiences with his wife, Thomson, author of the novel 'Lies You Wanted to Hear,' sees Vic as the injured party. Vic claimed that he left Eileen in their bedroom because she was 'hysterical' and he wanted to call Eileen's mother to see if she could help calm Eileen down. That's when Vic heard the shot. These details set off alarm bells in my head. Eileen's motivation for shooting herself felt like a flimsy excuse made up on the spot by a murderous husband. According to recent government statistics, the number of women murdered by an intimate partner was five times higher than for men; according to research by Everytown, 76% of women killed by firearms were murdered by their partners in 2021. While Thomson's obliviousness to the phenomenon in 1974 might be a product of attitudes and awareness of the issue that time, he still seems unaware how prevalent domestic violence is when he starts investigating Eileen's death in 2001. He hires a male private investigator to track down more details, but it's not until a female investigator joins them that she immediately spots a pattern of domestic abuse that should have been an immediate red flag. What follows is Thomson's account of his obsessive search for answers about what really happened to Eileen on that afternoon. It's never clear what fuels his quest nearly 30 years after she died: At first, he says it's because he wants to write a novel about his sister's case; later, when others ask him, 'Why now?' his response is 'happenstance.' As if it had accidentally occurred to him. True crime stories often turn on the pursuit of a more accurate account of what actually transpired than authorities first agreed upon. Traditional ideas about narrative — that a story has a beginning, middle and end — fuels the expectation that by uncovering the sequence of events and the motivations of those involved, that we will arrive at a place called 'truth,' and that in knowing the truth, justice will prevail. What then, does a writer — a grieving brother — do with a case that begins in ambiguous circumstances? If it turns out that Eileen did aim a gun at her own heart, will having the suicide confirmed be a form of justice? And if Thomson's investigation reveals that her husband killed her in 1974, what then would justice look like decades later? Thomson is aware of the quandary. 'We want a verdict in cases like this, truth sealed with an imprimatur of a court of law,' he writes as he discusses the true crime cases that are a staple of TV programs such as 'Dateline,' observing that producers of such shows 'know their audience. Viewers don't want ambiguity: they want stories about cases that have been solved and reaffirm their belief that there is order in the universe, that justice will win out. This is what I wanted for Eileen — and for me — order, justice, redemption, resolution. Certainty.' Thomson is seeking his own redemption. When Eileen died, he had accepted the idea that her suicide had been a natural consequence for breaking her marriage vows. His understanding of her was based on a one-dimensional view of what a moral woman was. But marriage is much more complex, and he knew almost nothing about Eileen's life in California. He admits that he casually accepted Vic's story because of his own 'hubris and eagerness to get on with my life.' His views of Eileen as an adult woman needed to change if he was to find any peace with Eileen's death. At best, what he gets is an uneasy peace. Even in 2001, Thomson operated in a world in which he was oblivious to the ways that gender ideologies and power imbalances affect men and women in different ways. His assumptions about Eileen were based on views he'd had of her as a kid. What he comes to understand is that his little sister had been 2,000 miles away from the support of family, living with a husband with a bad temper, a gun and a badge. In her last moments, she was alone and frightened with that angry man, and about to have her life cut short by expectations about how a 'good' wife should behave. Berry is a writer and critic living in Oregon.
Yahoo
18-03-2025
- Yahoo
Cop dies when police car split in 2 by light pole while in pursuit of suspect during chase
A sheriff's deputy has died in a police chase after his car split in half when he lost control of his patrol vehicle, crashed into a bystander's car and then slammed into a light pole, police said. The police chase began on Monday morning shortly before 11 a.m. in San Bernardino, California, when law enforcement received a call about a possible stolen vehicle which was spotted by a deputy on duty from the Victorville City Station which led to the police chase, according to ABC News' Los Angeles station KABC. MORE: 5 people dead in massive car crash in Austin, driver charged 'Deputies attempted a traffic stop but the suspect, Ryan Turner, failed to yield and a pursuit ensued,' according to a statement from the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department. 'During the pursuit, Deputy Hector Cuevas, Jr. was involved in a traffic collision with another vehicle.' During the police pursuit, Cuevas crashed near the intersection of El Evado and Seneca roads, where his patrol car struck a bystander's vehicle before slamming into a light pole, causing his car to be severed in half. MORE: Cop delivers pizza after delivery driver finds 8-foot alligator hiding under customer's car 'Cuevas succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced deceased at the scene,' police said. 'The female driver of the other vehicle was transported to a hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.' The suspect, named as Ryan Dwayne Turner, Jr. -- a 22-year-old resident of San Bernardino – continued to flee before stopping his car at El Evado Road and Zuni Lane and attempting to escape on foot. MORE: 4-year-old boy calls 911 after 'bad mom' eats his ice cream MORE: Arsonist sets fire to Tesla charging stations: Police The pursuit didn't last long, and Turner was subsequently caught and taken into custody, police said. Cuevas was a six-year veteran of law enforcement who worked at the Victorville station for the last three years, according to KABC. Turner was booked on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and evading a peace officer and causing death or serious injury, San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon Dicus said during a news conference on Monday. MORE: Scorpion stings woman at Boston baggage claim as she picked up luggage after flight from Mexico "I really have no words to describe this tragedy. Hector is the type of law enforcement officer that we all want to be," Dicus said. "He was a grand and great protector and a great father, and we will be suffering his loss and supporting his family for quite some time." Vehicles from multiple law enforcement agencies escorted the deputy's body in a solemn procession across local freeways to the San Bernardino County Coroner's Office following the incident, KABC said. MORE: Dead woman's body found in trunk of car driven by her son after police chase "We currently do not know the exact circumstances surrounding the collision as of yet," Dicus said, confirming that an investigation on the crash is underway. "We are deeply saddened to hear about the passing of a San Bernardino County deputy,' the San Bernardino Police Officers Association said in a statement on social media. 'Our thoughts and prayers are with their family, friends, and the entire agency during this difficult time. They made the ultimate sacrifice in service to their community, and their bravery will never be forgotten." Cop dies when police car split in 2 by light pole while in pursuit of suspect during chase originally appeared on
